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a general term used to describe the degree to which a product, device, service, or environment is available to as many people as possible. Accessibility is often used to focus on people with disabilities or special needs and their right of access to entities

Our app has a similar welcome screen layout to this:
http://www.curious-creature.com/2010/08/15/scrollviews-handy-trick/comment-page-1/
The action buttons are at the bottom of a scrollview, so when ...

I would like to present an option for users who have a visual deficiency (specifically, colorblindness) to choose so that the UI can adjust its colors accordingly to best suit them. What should I name ...

So we have decided to make our website more accessible and I'm studying the WCAG recommendations right now. I can clearly see that there is a difference between Level A, Level AA and Level AAA. It's ...

Based on this question I've been racking my brain trying to find a color scheme for journal publications that is color blind friendly and that I actually like. I've tried color brewer and other sites, ...

I'm in the midst of redefining a cross-application style guide, and I want to make sure we're accounting for accessibility in the design, including contrast ratios, text sizes, and focus states. One ...

One of my Stack Exchange communities is currently cleaning up its missing image alt text for the benefit of those who use the site with screen readers. We understand that the alt text we add will be ...

Has any font been proven, in an academically sound manner, to be particularly easy for those with dyslexia to read and as such would be a good choice for any screen text product created with dyslexic ...

Users stories acceptance criteria are an integral part of the user story. If not done exhaustively, acceptance criteria can cause a whole chain of issues such as bad sequencing of development tasks or ...

A little bit of background (feel free to skip):
There are a lot of government regulations being put in place to prevent issues with website accessibility under various anti-discrimination acts in the ...

We've recently begun using Google Tag Manager on our site, as well as using a tool that tests accessibility.
Running our site against WCAG 2.0 Level A results in an error (WCAG 2.0 Level A 2.4.1 and ...

What should happen if a user is scrolling through items in a combobox with the keyboard and they press the Tab key? Should it behave like the Enter key, selecting the currently highlighted item and ...

This application has a ribbon. If you pull a panel opens. For left-handed users it's a little uncomfortable, while opening the panel, arm occludes part of the screen and interferes with their intent ...

What would be the best way to determine if a particular keyboard character is available/convenient (enough) for most/all end users to type, regardless of keyboard layout?
For instance, if I want to ...

We're about to create a number of physical objects with codes imprinted on them.
We have decided to only use uppercase letters (no numbers).
This is supposed to be read by humans in a hurry, and we ...

I am curious how you should approach the design of notification functionality with screen readers in mind.
Let's take Facebook as an example. If someone comments on one of your posts. A little popup ...

Take a site like Reddit for example, where users can post images or media in general and have people comment on it. I want the content and the media to be both easily accessible.
My initial plan is ...

Hopefully this is not too broad, I am currently developing a website for my university project and part of the criteria is to implement some considerations to accessibility and also responsive design. ...

I have a login form shown below, and I am trying to figure out the correct tabbing for it for the best accessibility and user-experience. This seems like a very common design, but I haven't found a ...